Winnipeg Construction - Page 367

bomberjet · #**7321** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 6:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

theres a for lease sign on the 4play space

Seems crazy that a delayed NHL season put this place out of business. That was their excuse, doesn't make sense to me. And I thought it was going to be re-purposed by the 4play people? Guess not. Should tear it down and expand the CentrePoint project!

Lenin · #**7322** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 6:26 PM**

Yeah, crazy. I seem to recall an announcement that stated it would convert to a dinner theatre or something in March. Hopefully they tear the structure down and build a single story dollar store! Damn, that stretch could really use one.

Biff · #**7323** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 6:30 PM**

CentrePoint should buy the 4play space and move the Glasshouse Condo project onto Portage.

cheswick · #**7324** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

CentrePoint should buy the 4play space and move the Glasshouse Condo project onto Portage.

It wouldn't it be too late for that?

cheswick · #**7325** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 6:56 PM**

Architects dream up ways to breathe life into downtown spaces
By: Dan Lett

The Re-imagining Winnipeg project, a collaboration between StorefrontMB and the Winnipeg Free Press, has certainly created food for thought about what this city is and what it could be.

We've envisioned lush green parks at Portage and Main, rail lines relocated to create a dynamic new public space and even new ways of planning parking to move traffic and attract more people downtown. In short, it has done just what it was designed to do: get us talking about what could be.

Article here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/simply-transformational-192967281.html

JamieDavid Exchange · #**7326** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 8:26 PM**

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Mininari · #**7327** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

theres a for lease sign on the 4play space

Considering the bad reviews I kept reading / hearing about the place, I'm not surprised. Bad food, poor service, etc. Milestones and Shark Club (and I've been to both) would definitely put a poorly run establishment, such as forepl... oops, I mean 4play out to pasture.

On a side-note, can we please put a moratorium on new 'double-entendre' named establishments. It's witty in an adult way, but honestly its getting old.

ctochico · #**7328** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 9:20 PM**

the only restaurant that probably can do well at the 4play location would be a joeys restaurant. considering earls on main, mts moxies are all packed before/after jets games, most likely because of the "talent" that they display, joeys is the only one that is missing in the vicinity. i went to the MET after the last game, and there were people there, but nothing compared to like moxies or earls.

bomberjet · #**7329** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 10:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by ctochico

the only restaurant that probably can do well at the 4play location would be a joeys restaurant. considering earls on main, mts moxies are all packed before/after jets games, most likely because of the "talent" that they display, joeys is the only one that is missing in the vicinity. i went to the MET after the last game, and there were people there, but nothing compared to like moxies or earls.

Shark Club puts all to shame! Any time I visit Saskatoon for work, I make sure to stay at the Sandman.

rypinion · #**7330** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 10:55 PM**

The MET has a good menu, but I think it is a little limited for a regular place for groups to go eat.

I've been going there pretty regularly and it does seem to be getting busier each week. Saturday's Jets away game had the 2nd floor pretty full. Going again next Thursday, we'll see how busy it is then.

jmt18325 · #**7331** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 11:38 PM**

The for lease sign is not for the 4play space, but another in the same building.

Lenin · #**7332** Posted **Feb 26, 2013, 11:38 PM**

I might as well be honest and betray my own snobbish prejudice: as soon as I learned Lethbridge had a Shark Club I was a bit disappointed that such a franchise was opening in this location. Perhaps I had hoped for something more grandiose. At any rate, I guess I can't judge the place until it's open and I swing by for a visit.

To be quite fair, I've never been inside the one in Lethbridge either, but it ain't much from the outside, and I've heard mixed reviews. But if the Saskatoon one is cool I'll give the new Winnipeg location a shot.

GORDBO · #**7333** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 12:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by jmt18325

The for lease sign is not for the 4play space, but another in the same building.

I do some flooring for the contractor thats doing the reno's. From what he's told me, work is indeed well underway.

WestEndWander · #**7334** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 3:00 AM**

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/C...idor-through-Parker-Lands-193333321.html

I still can't wrap my head around the routing of the 2nd leg of the RT corridor. Thoughts?

morty · #**7335** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by WestEndWander

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/C...idor-through-Parker-Lands-193333321.html

I still can't wrap my head around the routing of the 2nd leg of the RT corridor. Thoughts?

It's a very stupid decision. They now need three grade separations over a train line that is used no more than 2 or 3 times per day. On top of that, the TOD opportunities are limited. They traded the 59 acres of developable Parker land to Andrew Marquess (google his name) in a 1 million dollar deal. The rest of the land is privately owned, and in an industrial park. If the city is looking to increase tax revenues, stimulating increased density along Pembina Highway would be the better way to do that.

Another justification that the city came up for their preferred routing is that it allows them to build an Active Transportation pathway. The pathway along phase 1 is so half assed that it's hard to believe the city is actually considering bikers. On top of that, they're slowly extending the separated bikeways up to Jubilee.

The city actually, at the time of the Parker land swap, had a good plan. They were going to build the RT line along the train line, extend Sterling Lyon to Taylor, and build an RT extension to the new Sterling Lyon section. This would have given the southwest neighbourhoods good RT access, fixed an area with bad roads, and kept the RT corridor along Pembina.

Here's a diagram from the Free Press from way back in 2009:

The shorter route that serves existing residents is the more logical route. This decision is important, as it will set a precedent for all future RT lines. Do we want to build for new developments or for existing residents? Is transit a revenue-generating investment, or a city service?

flatlander · #**7336** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 4:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by WestEndWander

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/C...idor-through-Parker-Lands-193333321.html

I still can't wrap my head around the routing of the 2nd leg of the RT corridor. Thoughts?

Dumb.

Mininari · #**7337** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 5:23 AM**

Is there some kind of Mafia running this city?

I mean, city christmas parties at the Mayor's brother's restaurant?
City managers spotted in developer's corporate boxes at NHL games...
... and that same company gets nearly every city real estate contract that comes along.
Said city manager parking wherever the hell he pleases.
The whole waterpark saga
The stadium saga
Bad planning decisions (such as this one)
Dearth of aging city management and their old, (and very dated) 60's/70's urban planning.
The Mayor buying and selling properties and companies in Arizona with 'friends'
The Mayor living in Arizona for half the year? (source).
The parking lots around Shaw Park and the infamous 'tax break'

... and all this has been going on since I moved here in late 2006. Wow. Busy place.

My apologies if I got any thing wrong here (or missed any other really juicy ones)... but seriously, how much longer is the public really going to let these sorts of things be 'business as usual???????' Some of us love to ridicule Glendale AZ city council and their handling of the Coyotes saga, or the whole Rob Ford Fiasco, but we've got a few of our own here!

Anyways, thats not a construction comment... belongs in a city politics thread or something.
I just googled that 'Marquees' fellow and his Parker Lands deal.... woah. There's another one.

1ajs · #**7338** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 5:57 AM**

who wants to run next time?

chrisallard5454 · #**7339** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 7:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mininari

Is there some kind of Mafia running this city?

I mean, city christmas parties at the Mayor's brother's restaurant?
City managers spotted in developer's corporate boxes at NHL games...
... and that same company gets nearly every city real estate contract that comes along.
Said city manager parking wherever the hell he pleases.
The whole waterpark saga
The stadium saga
Bad planning decisions (such as this one)
Dearth of aging city management and their old, (and very dated) 60's/70's urban planning.
The Mayor buying and selling properties and companies in Arizona with 'friends'
The Mayor living in Arizona for half the year? (source).
The parking lots around Shaw Park and the infamous 'tax break'

... and all this has been going on since I moved here in late 2006. Wow. Busy place.

My apologies if I got any thing wrong here (or missed any other really juicy ones)... but seriously, how much longer is the public really going to let these sorts of things be 'business as usual???????' Some of us love to ridicule Glendale AZ city council and their handling of the Coyotes saga, or the whole Rob Ford Fiasco, but we've got a few of our own here!

Anyways, thats not a construction comment... belongs in a city politics thread or something.
I just googled that 'Marquees' fellow and his Parker Lands deal.... woah. There's another one.

We'll see what happens in April.

chrisallard5454 · #**7340** Posted **Feb 27, 2013, 7:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

who wants to run next time?

I would love to, as I am sure would half of this forum. However, I am 21 with out a political science degree, and no business experience. I always maintained that my resourcefulness as well as my absolute adoration for this city could be enough -in a perfect world- but even my own girlfriend laughs at the naivety of these ideas.

Does it seem odd to anyone that our supposed civil servants seem hardly the type of people who have served anyone in any manner within the last quarter of their lives? I think to be a civil servant, one must know what it is like to be a normal citizen, which is something most politicians have lost sight of long before running for office.